linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE

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Date:   Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:22:59 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        io-uring@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 08:10:31PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> IMO it's much saner to mark those and refuse to touch them from io_uring...

Simpler solution is to remove io_uring from the 32-bit syscall list.
If you're a 32-bit process, you don't get to use io_uring.  Would
any real users actually care about that?